Category: NHS

  • An open letter to the UK Government and its Parliamentarians

    An open letter to the UK Government and its Parliamentarians

    Not from me, obvs. This is from Dr Joseph Chrysostom MBBS, MS (Gen Surg), FRCSEd (pictured right), who very kindly contributed two anonymous posts to this blog comparing real vaginas with the current best facsimiles available to men and another post which compared real penises with the current best facsimiles available to women. Both posts…

  • The NHS data scandal

    The NHS data scandal

    Victoria Keilthy is a senior manager in an NHS trust and the author of “Incoherent and Unsafe“, a report on the dangers posed by the NHS’s current approach to recording sex and gender identity in patient records. I met Victoria recently and heard her talk in succinct terms about the problems the NHS has created…

  • A message to you, GPs

    A message to you, GPs

    I am in touch with a doctor who is concerned about gender-affirming care, and the expectation that GPs in the UK will prescribe hormones for young adults who have been seen by Gender Identity Clinics. She has written what follows mainly for other clinicians, but it is of interest to the lay reader, too. Introduction…